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Colección Ictiológica Del Museo De La Plata: La Familia Trichomycteridae COLECCIÓN ICTIOLÓGICA DEL MUSEO DE LA PLATA: LA FAMILIA TRICHOMYCTERIDAE LUIS FERNÁNDEZ DIEGO O. NADALIN HUGO L. LÓPEZ MA. JOSEFINA SERIO ProBiota, FCNyM, UNLP SERIE TÉCNICA Y DIDÁCTICA Nº 35 Indizada en la base de datos ASFA C.S.A. ISSN 1515-9329 2015 ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 1 Colección ictiológica del Museo de La Plata: la Familia Trichomycteridae L. Fernández1,2,3; D. O. Nadalin4; H. L. López4 y Ma. J. Serio4 1 CONICET 2 Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251, 4000 Tucumán; Instituto Biodiversidad Neotropical, Horco Molle s/n° Yerba Buena, 4107 Tucumán, IBIGEO, Mendoza 2, 4400 Salta, Argentina 3 Facultad Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Belgrano 300, 4700 Catamarca, Argentina 4 División Zoología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, FCNyM, UNLP Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900. Buenos Aires, Argentina IMAGEN DE TAPA: TRICHOMYCTERUS SPEGAZZINI. MA. JOSEFINA SERIO Diciembre de 2015 ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 2 PREFACIO En este número de la Serie Técnica y Didáctica de ProBiota se comienza a difundir los materiales que se encuentran depositados en la Colección Ictiológica del Museo de La Plata, cuyos antecedentes se pueden ver en Miquelarena y Nadalin 2014. En este caso tratamos a la Familia Trichomycteridae la cual está muy bien representada en nuestro país. Como dato histórico podemos mencionar que entre los colectores de los materiales señalados en el texto, se encuentran figuras de las Ciencias Naturales de la Argentina, comenzando con el fundador del propio Museo, Francisco P. Moreno, así como otros directores: Joaquín Frenguelli y Emiliano Mac Donagh. Además de otros científicos de renombre como Carlos Spegazzini, Ángel Cabrera, Raúl A. Ringuelet, Alberto Rex González y Argentino A. Bonetto. En el material mencionado se contabilizan cuatro especies tipo y otras provenientes de Brasil producto de un reciente intercambio con el Museo Nacional de Río Janeiro (MNRJ). ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 3 INTRODUCCIÓN La familia Trichomycteridae puede distinguirse del resto de los Siluriformes por las estructuras como dientes sobre el opérculo e interopérculo llamadas odontoides, que pueden perderse en algunos géneros como ocurre con Glanapteryx, Pygidianops y Typhlobelus (pierden los odontoides del interopérculo) y los Copionodontinae, Apomatoceros, Megalocentor, Glanapteryx, Pygidianops y Typhlobelus (pierden los del opérculo) (Myers 1944, Baskin 1973, de Pinna 1989, 1998). Otras características de morfología externa (Baskin 1973, de Pinna 1989, 1998) son: presencia de pares de barbillas maxilares en el ángulo (rictus) de la boca (reducidas en algunos Stegophilinae y Vandelliinae); ausencia de espinas en las aletas dorsal y pectoral; presencia de tres a siete radios procurrentes (cortos y sin ramificar) en la porción anterior de la aleta dorsal; ausencia del mecanismo para trabar la espina de la aleta dorsal; la aleta dorsal localizada sobre la mitad o mitad posterior del cuerpo; presencia de la barbilla nasal sobre las narina anterior (reducida en Stegophilinae, Vandelliinae, y algunos Tridentinae); presencia de i+4 radios de la aleta pélvica (excepto en grupos basales, Copionodontinae y Trichogeninae, con i+6) y ausencia de aleta adiposa (excepto en Copionodontinae). La familia Trichomycteridae incluye ocho subfamilias, 41 géneros y cerca de 240 especies (Ferraris 2007, Armbruster 2011, Eschmeyer 2013). Los tricomictéridos exhiben una excepcional diversidad de hábitats y modos de vida, desde especies que habitan los arroyos de alta montaña en los Andes a otros que viven en ríos de llanura, mostrando un alto potencial para colonizar los ambientes ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 4 más extremos, tales como elevada altura arriba de los 4,000 m (Trichomycterus yuska), islas (T. gorgona), cavernas (Ituglanis passensis, Trichomycterus chaberti, T. sketi entre muchas otras), aguas freáticas (Silvinichthys bortayro), termales (Trichomycterus therma y una población de T. corduvensis) o frías patagónicas (Hatcheria macraei) (Fernández y Schaefer 2003, 2005, Fernández y de Pinna 2005, Unmack et al. 2011, Fernández y Vari 2009, 2012, Fernández 2013, Fernández y Andreoli Bize 2015). Algunas subfamilias más derivadas dentro de los Trichomycteridae, como Sarcoglanidinae (Ammoglanis, Sarcoglanis, Malacoglanis) y Glanapteryginae (Glanapteryx, Pygidianops, Typhlobelus), se entierran en arena y se caracterizan por su pequeño tamaño de menos de 26 mm (Myers y Weitzmann 1966, Weitzman y Vari 1988, Costa y Bockmann 1994, Schaefer et al. 2005, Pinna y Zuanon 2013). En cuanto a la distribución, los tricomictéridos habitan en aguas continentales desde Costa Rica y Panamá (10°N con Trichomycterus) hasta la Patagonia (47°S con Hatcheria) en Argentina y Chile (Arratia y Menu-Marque 1981, Unmack et al. 2009, Fernández y Andreoli Bize 2015). De las ocho subfamilias, solo los Trichomycterinae están presentes desde la elevada cordillera (4,000+ m altura) hasta la costa Atlántica. La alimentación de los tricomictéridos incluye desde los macroinvertívoros bentónicos e intersticiales (en la mayoría de las subfamilias) hasta la más interesante especialización encontrada en los peces, como es el caso de las dos subfamilias parásitas y semi (Vandelliinae y Stegophilinae, respectivamente). Los Vandelliinae son exclusivamente hematófagos de las branquias de otros peces, mientras los Stegophilinae se alimentan del mucus de otros peces (Baskin y Zaret 1980, Winemiller y Yan 1989, ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 5 Schmidt 1993, Zuanon y Sazima 2004a, 2004b, Zuanon y Sazima 2005, Schaefer y Fernández 2009, Lasso et al. 2015). Ambas subfamilias, vandelliines y stegophilines, son conocidos como “candirú” y algunas especies (Vandellia cirrhosa o Plectrochilus) pueden accidentalmente entrar por la uretra de los bañistas con resultados dolorosos (Gudger 1930a, 1930b, Spote et al. 2001, Spote 2002). Trichomycteridae fue reconocida como familia por Gill (1872), pero más tarde Eigenmann y Eigenmann (1888, 1890), Eigenmann (1918, 1922), Myers (1944) y Miranda Ribeiro (1951) entre otras publicaciones usan el nombre Pygidiidae (Bakin 1973, de Pinna 1998). Por otro lado, Tchernavin (1944) en una detallada revisión propone justificadamente mantener el nombre Trichomycteridae antes que Pygidiidae. En el pasado, Trichomycteridae incluía también otros grupos como Cetopsinae (a veces mal llamados candirú), Nematogenyinae (considerado actualmente el grupo hermano de los Trichomycteridae), y el freático Phreatobius (Eigenmann 1918, Myers y Weitzman 1966, Baskin 1973, de Pinna 1998). Hasta el momento, en la Argentina los Trichomycteridae están bien representados con 37 especies distribuidas en cuatro subfamilias: Tridentinae (Tridentopsis 2 especies), Stegophilinae (Parastegophilus, Homodiaetus y Ochmacanthus cada una con 1), Vandelliinae (Paravandellia 1), Trichomycterinae (Trichomycterus 19, Silvinichthys 7, Hatcheria 1) (Ringuelet et al. 1967, López et al. 1987, Liotta 2006, Fernández y Vari 2012, Fernández et al. 2014, Fernández y Andreoli Bize en preparación) y dos géneros de posición incierta Ituglanis (2 de 20 especies) y Scleronema (2 de 3 especies). Algunos autores consideran a estos dos géneros insertae ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 6 sedis dentro de los Trichomycterinae, pasando Ituglanis a ser así el segundo género mejor representado en la subfamilia después de Trichomycterus (Arratia 1990, Costa y Bockmann 1993, Datovo y Bockmann 2010, Datovo y de Pinna 2014). La familia Trichomycteridae está ampliamente extendida en la Argentina; con el género Trichomycterus que ocupa las provincias de Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero, San Juan, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis, Córdoba, Corrientes, Entre Ríos y Misiones, y el género Hatcheria con las provincias de Mendoza, Río Negro, La Pampa, San Juan, La Rioja y Santa Cruz, siendo el límite más austral de la familia en Sudamérica. Los restantes géneros Ituglanis, Scleronema, Tridentopsis, Parastegophilus, Homodiaetus, Ochmacanthus y Paravandellia ocupan el noreste de la Argentina en las provincias de Formosa, Chaco, Santa Fe, Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos y Buenos Aires. Varias de las especies de esta subfamilia son endémicas (10 especies de los géneros Trichomycterus y Silvinichthys), ubicándose principalmente en pequeños arroyos de la Cordillera (Fernández 2013, Fernández et al. 2014). De las 10 especies, 7 se definen como alto andinas (Trichomycterus 5, Hatcheria 1 y Silvinichthys 1), esto es por encima de los 3,000 m de altura sobre el nivel del mar, siendo el registro más alto de Argentina hasta el momento el de T. roigi a 4,800 m en la puna de Jujuy. ProBiota, Serie Técnica y Didáctica Nº 35 – 2015 7 MATERIAL DEPOSITADO EN COLECCIÓN ORDEN SILURIFORMES FAMILIA TRICHOMYCTERIDAE Subfamilia Trichomycterinae Hatcheria sp. MLP 416 1 ejemplar (ej.); Patagonia. MLP 426 1 ej.; Chubut, Argentina. MLP 997 2 ejs.; Alta Cordillera. MLP 2224 1 ej.; Arroyo Uspallata, Mendoza. Colector (Col.): E. Mac Donagh. IX/1937. Observaciones (Obs.): este lote correspondería a H. macraei (L. Férnandez). MLP 3674 1 ej.; Mendoza. Col.: A. Willink. Obs.: este lote correspondería a H. macraei (L. Férnandez). MLP 3771 1 ej.; Arroyo Chaca Melehuel, Chas Malal, Telleria, Neuquén; Col.: J. Frengüelli. XI/1943. MLP 5666 1 ej.; Arroyo La Regita, Mendoza. Col.: A. Caballero. II/1950. Hatcheria macraei MLP 287 1 ej.; Chacras de Coria, Mendoza. MLP 289 1 ej.; Chacras de Coria, Mendoza. MLP
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